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[Loud Whispers]

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.

Anybody else think of The Thing?

Carpenters' thing? or adams familys' thing?

The thing.

[Psieye]

I had an undead corpse that slowly rotted away a little more each time I laid it down. What started as a corpse became a mutilated corpse after a messy death, then several deaths later, was an undead partial skeleton.

For animals at least, an alternative to atomsmash or magma is to butcher AND tan the corpses. As is now known though, don't do this for creatures that drop hair - spinning hair into thread takes phenomenally long because the 'hair' is considered a huge sized item, causing far too much clutter to be processed before reanimation.

[Blizzlord]

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.

Anybody else think of The Thing?

Carpenters' thing? or adams familys' thing?

The thing.

This Thing?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Loud Whispers]

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.

Anybody else think of The Thing?

Carpenters' thing? or adams familys' thing?

The thing.

This Thing?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's not the original, but yes, that thing

[Blizzlord]

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.

Anybody else think of The Thing?

Carpenters' thing? or adams familys' thing?

The thing.

This Thing?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's not the original, but yes, that thing

Pardon, but I never saw(ed) the original.

[Aspgren]

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.

Anybody else think of The Thing?

Carpenters' thing? or adams familys' thing?

The thing.

This Thing?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's not the original, but yes, that thing

Pardon, but I never saw(ed) the original.

You must see it. The new movie is a clichéd slasher/body horror shitflick. The entire atmosphere is all "oh there's a monster we must run or it will get us!" while the original builds a tension of distrust between the crew members. It's not even comparable.

[Blizzlord]

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.

Anybody else think of The Thing?

Carpenters' thing? or adams familys' thing?

The thing.

This Thing?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's not the original, but yes, that thing

Pardon, but I never saw(ed) the original.

You must see it. The new movie is a clichéd slasher/body horror shitflick. The entire atmosphere is all "oh there's a monster we must run or it will get us!" while the original builds a tension of distrust between the crew members. It's not even comparable.

I will see our recording of the movie; as I've heard they were not comparible, but the whole point of the post was the pun.

[Wannazzaki]

Embarked on a necromancer tower with just embark, torn to shreds by zombies. reembarked with 7 warrior dorfs, went into various stages of trance and slaughtered the ambushes, a raven swarm helped and was quickly massacred. Everything was raised by The Bass Necromancer and they were torn to shreds. Wellp. I expect that any future embarks may have this son of a bitch invading.

[nightwhips]

First embark, the only other units on the screen in a haunted zone are a wolverine and a porcupine corpse. I don't even know how the wolverine died, but it came back, and it came back hard. That and the ravens ramped up a nice zombie spiral very quickly, since they killed my woodcutter pretty quickly. It all happened so fast that I could barely figure out what was going on. And despite watching his corpse run around killing things, I was informed that he had been "missing for a week". Chilling.

[Mrhappyface]

I butchered a horse in a sinister area. Next thing I saw was my dwarves being interrupted by crawling horse hair. Hilarity ensued.
It was only mildly annoying, but slightly later the horse skin also went undead and killed everyone.

Anybody else think of The Thing?

Carpenters' thing? or adams familys' thing?

The thing.

This Thing?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's not the original, but yes, that thing

Pardon, but I never saw(ed) the original.

You must see it. The new movie is a clichéd slasher/body horror shitflick. The entire atmosphere is all "oh there's a monster we must run or it will get us!" while the original builds a tension of distrust between the crew members. It's not even comparable.

I will see our recording of the movie; as I've heard they were not comparible, but the whole point of the post was the pun.

Rather accurate, as only heat-based weapons seem to be effective against the Thing. Now if we can only figure out how to get magma throwers and heated wire-blood tests.

[Loud Whispers]

Why heat the blood? Just dump the Dorf in magma. That way we'll know for sure!

[Bertinator]

Reanimated skin seems a bit overpowered. Butchered a Yak for !!SCIENCE!!. I was fine with the skin killing turkey gobblers, but after I brought it to my outdoor refuse pile and it reanimated again, it singlehandedly KO'd two war dogs. They weren't dead, but had several broken bones/bruised organs. It's a little ridiculous given that it's skin and should be very flimsy. The war dogs also seems unable to actually kill it effectively, only bruising or tearing skin. The attacks should definitely be toned down a bit. If it's skin, pretty much the only way it should be able to actually do damage is by strangling something to death.

Starting a new embark because I'd rather not deal with unending skin attacks and other annoyingness. I plan on doing an evil embark once these kinds of bugs get fixed, alongside undead repeatedly coming back to life too fast to be fun. Right now they're pretty much impossible to stop once they start, aside from magma.

[Loud Whispers]

Paper > Rock
Reanimated Yak Skin > Dog

[MrShovelFace]

I think we should attempt to give these zombies love and understanding.

[Psieye]

Well, Toady very specifically kept the undead skin thing after it showed up. It can be dealt with - tan it and it won't come back to life. Same with hair: spin it into thread and it won't come back. The trouble comes when the animal is so big you can't process its parts in a timely manner - I don't think the body parts will kindly wait while the dwarf works on it.